BOB2 Wrote:
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> The Florida project represents what we should be
> doing in CA, instead of the poorly planned and
> completely mismanaged bloated pile of change
> orders they are building in Fresno......
>
> The Florida HSR project will achieve speeds of 125
> mph. and is considered HSR. No it doesn't go a
> maximum speed of 200 because it doesn't have to,
> in order to penetrate the station to station
> markets they are targeting. It is a high speed
> system they can afford, people will use, and that
> could even generate a real profit for investors.
>
> Maximum speed and maximum cost were not the only
> criteria this private sector investment used to
> build a cost effective and potentially
> "profitable" regional high speed system that
> actually meets local travel demands in Florida's
> southeast coastal corridor.
>
> This is completely unlike the CAHSRA fiasco and
> contractor feeding frenzy in California, where
> "maximum" speed was equated with the maximum size
> of Kopp's "manliness", and where the object of the
> CAHSRA "planning" was a cost is no object
> contracting scheme, regardless of any of our
> actual travel patterns or future demands. In
> California our project is based on no real
> planning, and makes sense only from the standpoint
> of the concept of "build it and they will come",
> or at least on the concept that the contractors
> certainly will come...?


Is'nt Florada a conservative state unlike California?